Are You Human?
Patricia J. Reis and I were invited for an exhibition and conference in New Delhi, India.
Are You Human?
Exhibition:
Jan 30, 2026 until Feb 28, 2026 at Khoj Studios
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As the digital mediates our perception, our memories, and even our bodies, the boundaries between the organic and the machinic are becoming increasingly porous. Rather than seeing the body and the machine as separate entities in conflict or control, Are You Human? creates space to approach them connectedly. It explores how bodies become sites of data production, how interfaces encode bias, and how public spaces are increasingly determined by invisible systems of extraction and automation.
Are you Human? is an inquiry which has emerged from the urgency to understand how evolving technologies transform and reorganize what it means to be human, to inhabit gender, class and other socio-ecological formations, in the 2020s and beyond, globally.
Can technology, ecology, and society exist in dialogue? In harmony, even?
What can feminist code offer in dismantling the patriarchal foundations of digital space?
As technologies and Al advances, how do surveillance systems extract intimacy from already vulnerable bodies, and what forms of resistance emerge?
In a moment when truth is unstable and realities are increasingly manufactured, what becomes of democracy? How is technology reconfiguring relations between centres and peripheries?
(Text from Exhibition Website)
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/// Notes from the Digital Underground
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Speakers:
- Chris Salter
- Ashish Rajadhyaksha
- Nishant Shah
- Maya Indira Ganesh
- Micaela Mantegna
- Aarti Sunder
- Mila T Samdub
- Padmini Ray Murray
- Ritam Sengupta
- Vladan Joler
- Ali Akbar Mehta
- Bishakha Datta
- Escher Tsai
- Shabani Hassanwalia
- Snigdha Poonam
- Aditi Surie
- David Brazier
- Shuddhabrata Sengupta
- Tara Kelton
- Yatharth
- Dan McQuillan
- José Antonio Magalhães
- Patrícia J. Reis
- Stefanie Wuschitz
- Puneet Jain

Creative Practitioners:
Anisha Baid
Ben Andrews and Emma Roberts
Cyanne van den Houten
Dimension Plus
Elsewhere in India
Leewardists
Manuel Beltrán
Nayantara Ranganathan
Mochu
Patrícia J. Reis
Stefanie Wuschitz
Tomo Kihara
Playfool
Simple Noodle Art
Swarna Manjari
Tactical Tech
Tara Kelton
Zein Majali
Hasan Shahrukh
IIT Kanpur HIVE (Harmony, Interaction, and Versatile Exploration) Lab (India)
Arunav Rajesh
Anutosh Anand

Notes from the Digital Underground, was a symposium by Khoj, conceptualised with Mila T. Samdub on 31 January & 1 February 2026 at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.
Bringing together artists, scholars, and technologists, Notes from the Digital Underground convened critical conversations on bodies, machines, and publics to unpack the complexities of networked life in a digitally uneven India. Through shared inquiry and dialogue, the symposium reflects on the contradictions and possibilities of the digital present, while imagining ways of living—and working—otherwise.






